Famous Battles

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Two battle helmets resting on trampled ground beside a pair of crossed pike shafts.
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  • ACTIUM
  • AGINCOURT
  • ALAMO
  • AUSTERLITZ
  • BLENHEIM
  • BORODINO
  • CANNAE
  • CULLODEN
  • GAUGAMELA
  • HASTINGS
  • LEPANTO
  • MARATHON
  • SALAMIS
  • THERMOPYLAE
  • TRAFALGAR
  • WATERLOO

A handful of engagements redrew the map for centuries: Marathon and Thermopylae held off Persia, Gaugamela handed Alexander an empire, and Cannae is still taught as the model double envelopment. Hastings, Agincourt, Trafalgar and Waterloo each closed one era and opened another, from the Norman conquest to the fall of Napoleon.

Famous Battles Word Search Answer Key

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